Dunedin to Sydney flight

Flights from Dunedin to Sydney start at €214.31 and take 6h 33m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Dunedin to Sydney starts at €214.31 and takes 6h 33m door to door, run by 1 operator over 2,173 km, with around 4 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 11, 2026Priced for September 21, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 6h 33mDoor to door
  • 3h 23mMoving
  • €214.31From
  • 534.6 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 21, 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€214.31
  1. Air New Zealand AN644606:263h 23m09:49Dunedin DUDSydney SYD

Door to door 6h 33mCO2 534.6 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Air New Zealand€214.316h 18m740 km/hFixed fareNot published
  • Air New Zealand

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Booking window

When to book Dunedin to Sydney

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €275.6790 days
  2. €158.8560 days
  3. €172.4245 days
  4. €196.6130 days
  5. €240.2721 days
  6. €318.1514 days
  7. €337.627 days
  8. €364.763 days
  9. €488.071 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €158.85.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 207 percent. The most expensive point is €488.07, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €254.43Sun
  2. €229.06Mon
  3. €250.89Tue
  4. €286.29Wed
  5. €315.20Thu
  6. €318.15Fri
  7. €285.70Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Dunedin

Air
  • DUD

Sydney

Air
  • SYD
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

Direct or connecting
25% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 75% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 2,173 km against 2,110 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Christchurch, Auckland, Wellington. The gap between arriving and leaving is 57 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 17 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Dunedin at 06:26 and the last at 07:30, across 4 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Dunedin to Sydney

The questions people actually ask about this trip, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Flight from Dunedin to Sydney take?

The Flight from Dunedin to Sydney takes 6h 33m door to door, of which 3h 23m is spent moving. The route runs 2,173 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Flight from Dunedin to Sydney cost?

The Flight from Dunedin to Sydney starts at €214.31 for one passenger, checked on September 21, 2026. A typical fare is €315.20. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Flight from Dunedin to Sydney?

1 operators run the Flight from Dunedin to Sydney: Air New Zealand. Between them they file around 4 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Flight from Dunedin to Sydney use?

The Flight from Dunedin to Sydney leaves from Dunedin DUD and arrives at Sydney SYD. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Flight from Dunedin to Sydney?

Fares for the Flight from Dunedin to Sydney bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €158.85. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 207 percent, measured on September 21, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Dunedin to Sydney produce?

The Flight from Dunedin to Sydney produces about 534.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 2173 km, which works out at roughly 246 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.

Where these numbers come from

Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.

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On this page
Every figure above was computed for Dunedin to Sydney on September 11, 2026: 2173 km of route against 2110 km in a straight line, 4 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €214.31, and 6h 33m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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